Here is the weekly summary of news alerts from Google Breast Cancer and Cancer for week ending 14 February.

We love you! We’re helping to cure cancer!

I was spoiled for choice this week – all my favourite topics came up (and not a single tedious cohort study): curcumin (wow!), intravenous Vitamin C (double-wow!), more mouse trials (see Valentine’s Day card they sent us), cancer vaccine, new drugs (wow-wow-and-wow) and tamoxifen.

Curcumin:One of my most popular posts is on curcumin. Scientists have now discovered that putting an implant of curcumin into mice halted tumour growth vs ingesting it orally. Before we all rush out and get one … remember, it’s only been tested on mice, and only available in mice-size implants. However, the good news is that intravenous curcumin is available. The bad news, it’s in Germany and only six clinics at the moment have access to it. The good news, it’s available from the reputable PraxisKlinik Siebenhuner integrative clinic in Frankfurt (costs about Euro1,600 for six infusions).

Intravenous Vitamin C: There’s a study from the University of Kansas on the efficacy of intravenous Vitamin C in ameliorating chemotherapy symptoms – I’m not sure why it’s “new” news – this has been part of the protocol at the University of Kentucky for awhile. If you’ve followed my blog, you know I tried IV C and it didn’t work i.e. shrink the tumour. Having said that, in the two years I was on IV C, I never got any metastasis, so maybe something was working.

Tamoxifen:In Best of Breast (w/e 31 Jan) I mentioned that bodybuilders were taking tamoxifen, i.e. going out and buying it. Well, this week it’s revealed that bodybuilders may be unwittingly taking tamoxifen in bodybuilding supplements – it’s not even listed on the label. In case you were wondering … they take tamoxifen because they want to stop their man boobs from growing from steroid use.

This week’s headline: Finally … with all the juicy topics lined up, I chose to lead with a computer game that you can download to your iPhone or Smartphone and play and help scientists analyse real genetic data for cancer faster. Wouldn’t it be great to help beat cancer and have some fun too? Game on!

Despite adhering to a strict regime of 3 x 6 days a week of infusions plus twice weekly for another 3 months, and a near raw vegan diet with juicing, and a small fortune in supplements, the tumour grew.

(I did, however, feel generally well during that period so maybe it did some good.)

I’ve been thinking about why IV C didn’t work for me, and I’ve come up with the following possibilities:

Updated 15 December 2013 with information on where to purchase Hepa-Mertz if you are living in the UK

One thing was sure, the clinic moved fast. There wasn’t a day when I wasn’t doing treatments or infusions. Five hours after I arrived I was hooked up to infusions.

Infusions are a way of introducing supplements and boosters intravenously. They are very effective because they go straight into the bloodstream, where the body can immediately use them.

The infusions themselves weren’t expensive averaging Euro20 for a combination e.g Zinc, Vitamin C, Hepa-Mertz (a liver detox), Glutathione. Compare this to the cost of a single dose of IV C in the UK at £150-£200, and it was like being in a candy store.

I’ve noticed a lot of fundraising being done for people with Stage 4 cancer. I understand that not everyone wants to sell or re-mortgage their house, or take out a loan, or run up huge bills on credit cards, or maybe they’ve already done so and have reached the limits of borrowing, or they’ve got families to think about and support and can’t stretch their finances any further. Or maybe they just can’t imagine borrowing money in case they die. But what I’ve noticed is that some of these people with Stage 4 who are fundraising, is well, by the time they meet their targets, it’s taken a month … two months (if they’re lucky) … and then they die before the money comes in because the cancer has become more aggressive and advanced. What I want to say is: if you’re Stage 4, don’t wait for the target to be reached. Go now. Time is critical if you’re Stage 4. Run up the credit card bills. Buy yourself that precious time. And in the meanwhile, yes, fundraise like crazy. Because the longer you live, the more money you will need to keep the cancer in remission.

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When I first started out with using complementary therapies as a means to heal myself of the cancer, I hadn’t realised it was going to be so expensive.

I understand that practitioners with skill and expertise should be fairly rewarded for their service, so before you jump into the world of complementary therapies, please note that complementary therapies are not as cheap as allopathic medicine because complementary practitioners believe that they can charge a fair market rate. Often this equates what a doctor would charge in private practice. Unlike free treatment on the NHS, all complementary therapies must be paid for out of your own pocket.

If you’ve ever had an intravenous infusion of anything, you probably know what intravenous vitamin C feels like.

An intravenous needle is just a way of breaking the skin into a vein, and the needle acts as a guide for the cannular (or fine tube) that allows the fluid to flow into the vein. After the needle is inserted, the cannular follows and the needle is withdrawn. Sounds simple?

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